Mindanao Women Writers To Hold Journalism Training In Southern RP

COTABATO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 25 Jun) – The Mindanao Women Writer's Association of the Philippines (Min-Wow, Phil.) and IsIs International will conduct a four-day training and seminar to female writers and journalists based in Mindanao.

The training, organizers said, will start on July 4 at Notre Dame Foundation Center in Cotabato City. Lina Reyes, Min-Wow local coordinator, said the training will be mostly on radio broadcasting and news writing in order to enhance skills of the participants.

She said Bianca Miglloritto, IsIs- international coordinator, will be the training’s focal person. The said training will also discuss special documentary lessons. The BBC-News reporters from Germany, who are invited to the training, are expected to discuss television documentary.

Last week, German video-journalist Antonia Koop, of the Peace and Conflict Journalism Network (PECOJON), also held a free training and seminar for Filipino reporters in the central Philippine region of Visayas. (Becky de Asis)

PECOJON 2007 Blue Ink Awards Now Open

BACOLOD CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 10 Jun) - The Peace and Conflict Journalism (PECOJON) 2007 Blue Ink Awards is now open for competition.

The Blue Ink Award grants the winners a full scholarship covering full academic tuition and fees for the M.A. Conflict and Reconciliation (MA CRS) major in Conflict Journalism degree at the University of St. La Salle in Bacolod City in Negros province in the central Philippines.

The award is non-transferable and non-exchangeable for cash.

PECOJON is the Peace and Conflict Journalism Network, established in 2004 by Filipino journalists trained in conflict-sensitive reporting.

PECOJON has now around 200 members in the Philippines and around 50 foreign members all over the globe. The Blue Ink Award aims to identify and train potentially excellent writers in conflict-sensitive journalism.

Interested applicants must write and submit an investigative feature story on any conflict-based issue related to the Philippine elections of 2007.

The story must be written from an objective and analytical perspective and provides a better understanding of the chosen issue, especially in terms of addressing human needs.

It must be around 1000-1500 words, on letter-sized paper with 1-inch margins all around, double-spaced and using Times New Roman 12 font.

The story must be accompanied by at least one related photo and at least one other related visual material, or two related photos.

The ten best submitted stories will be published in its international PECOJON Magazine.

Applicants, in submitting their stories, grant first publication rights to PECOJON in return for their printed bylines. These ten stories will be the basis for selecting the winner/s of the Blue Ink Award.

Applicants must also submit their curriculum vitae along with their feature story and two accompanying visual materials via email to pecojon@pecojon.org and a copy to pecojon@gmail.com. The deadline for submission is at 12 noon of June 18, 2007.

PECOJON, Ateneo University Hold Peace Journalism Workshops In Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA CITY (Linda Bansil / 13 Dec) - The international group Peace and Conflict Journalism Network (PECOJON) will conduct two workshops on peace journalism for students at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University (ADZU) here.

The first workshop, on December 14 to 15, will be for college campus journalists in Zamboanga City and Basilan. The second seminar, on December 16 to 17, will be for Mass Communication students of ADZU at the Jose Maria Rosauro Formation Center.

The Department of Mass Communication and the Beacon Publications of ADZU organized the workshops.PECOJON has members in Asia, Europe and Africa that included noted filmmakers, and academicians, professionals and journalism students.

Antonia Koop, a German journalist and a filmmaker who founded PECOJON and serves as the network's international coordinator, will facilitate the workshop, together with Philippine coordinator Jean Lee Patindol.PECOJON held its first training in Zamboanga on January 2006.